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The Unusual History of Microsoft Windows. Your Privacy Rights. To change or withdraw your consent choices for ThoughtCo. At any time, you can update your settings through the "EU Privacy" link at the bottom of any page. These choices will be signaled globally to our partners and will not affect browsing data. In the s and s IBM began its growth into a household name. It launched the public address system used by schools, which quickly became a staple in the American classroom.

And in it invented the first calculator that could directly subtract. In the company developed the first completely electronic computing machine, the Vacuum Tube Multiplier. This was the first device that we would recognize as a modern computer. It filled a small room, at 50 feet long and eight feet tall, and performed electromechanical calculations automatically.

The U. Navy used the Mark I to calculate gun trajectories on its ships. Over the course of the s and s, IBM invented many of the core technologies that allowed computers to become staples of the business world.

It developed the working vacuum tube computer, which became the basis for all computers until the invention of the microchip. IBM also invented the hard drive, creating the first computer that stored data on spinning platters and retrieved that data with a magnetic arm.

It also created one of the modern benchmarks for artificial intelligence with its Deep Blue thinking system. Yet at the same time, as the s and s saw IBM pioneer desktop computing, the company also lost its status as the market leader.